This ortography is grounded on my long years in the
academe, in creative writing, in translation, in research work on the cultures
of the Philippine, in my work as journalist and radio announcer, and in my
experience as host and producer of a public television program.

These lessons concretize the theories I used in my
writing of the four dictionaries on the Ilokano language: the Contemporary
English-Ilokano Dictionary; the Kontemporaneo a Diksionario nga Ilokano-Ingles,
Limitado nga Edision/Contemporary English-Ilokano Dictionary, Limited Edition;
the Pinaababa a Kontemporaneo a Diksionario nga Ilokano-Ingles/Abridged
English-Ilokano Dictionary; and the Contemporary English-Ilokano Dictionary,
Student Edition/ Kontemporaneo a Diksionario nga Ilokano-Ingles, Edision a
Pang-Estudiante.